Fountain pen or the like



Nov. 4 1924- 1,514,002 G. M. KRAKER FOUNTAIN PEN OR THE LIKE Filed April 13, 1923 Patented Nov. 4, 19,24.

GEORGE M. KRAKE-R, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FOUNTAIN PEN OR THEIJIKE.

Application led April 13, 1923. Serial No. 631,775.

To all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. KRAKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and for Fountain Pens or the like, of which the following is a specification. A

This invention relates to improvements in fountain pen barrels or caps or similar articles of great length in comparison to the diameter, and has for 'its particular object to provide means readily applicable by any person for effecting identification of ownership of said fountain pen or similar device.

Heretofore many attempts have been made to suitably and easily affix to a fountain'pen or the like the name. or initials or other identification mark or material, but this has been found very difcult and impractical so far as the ordinary dealeris concerned, resort having been had to engraving or simil-ar processes requiring skilled labor and necessitating delay in delivery of the fountain pen or the like purchased from the dealer.

My invention is intended to obviate this difficulty and I provide means whereby the dealer in fountain pens and the like will be enabled very easily Iand quickly to affix to the fountain pen or the like, purchased from him, the name, initials or the like of the owner or purchaser of said pen.

While I have illustrated'the invention in the accompanying drawings only as -applied to the cap of a fountain en, it will be understood that said invention may be applied, either in the identical form shown or in such modification as may suggest itself to the mechanic skilled in the art, to

piece 2composed of bakelite, amber, or an similar composition or-matter, which pre erably has a reduced threaded end portion 3 'enga ing the internally threaded end portion o the cap 1. Preferably, when said at it-s outer end and open at its inner end,

the latter constituting the valve seat u on which the pen or nib end of the barre 5 is adapted to seat, the projecting end portion of the uib 6 and feed element 7 being thus housed by said valve cap 4 which is adapted tocollect any ink which may leak from the barrel and thus'prevent the same from staining the pocket of the wearer. Where such valve cap is used, it will obviously constitute a support for a disk 8 of paper or other suitable material upon which there is imprinted in any suitable manner the initials or name and address of the owner of the pen, or which may bear advertising matter or any other reading matter desired. Preferably said disk is loosely interposed between the end piece 2 and the closed end of the valve cap 4, and in order that it may be firmly engaged between said members a blank disk 8 isinserted as the cap is assembled and while the cement for firmly attaching the valve cap 4 within the cap l is still unset. Thus by pushing the valve cap 4 a little farther outwardly than its normal position and then placing a disk upon the same and thereupon screwing the end ieee 2 in place, the disk 8 Will be removab y held in proper position. The dealer will be supplied with similar disks, either imprinted or capable of being readily imprinted, and he can remove the blank disk and substitute an imprinted disk, and thereupon replace the end piece 2 after applying cement to the threads as heretofore indicated.

Preferably, the end surface of the. end

piece 2 is rendered slightly convex whereby it will act more or less like a lens to enlarge the imprint on the disk 8 and render it mpre readily visible and readable. The projecting end portion of the end pieco 2 hasits peripheral wall preferably slightly tapered from its point of juncture with the cap 1 to its outermost end, the inner end of the tapered portion being flush with the circumferential surface 0f the cap 1.

Obviously the disk 8 may be cemented to either the end piece 2-or to the end of the valve cap 4,'01 otherwise suitably held in place.

A similar disk may also be mounted lower inwardly of the end piece 9 of the butt end of the barrel 5 of the pen, said end piece being very ornamental as well as useful in the respect above mentioned. Y

While I have illustrated and described the invention in its preferred form as particularly applied t0 the type of fountain pen most commonly used, it will be obvious that said invention may be variously embodied to suit the conditions presented by various articles to which it may be applied, without, however, departing from the invention as defined in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention 1. In a fountain pen, a transparent end piece mounted upon the extreme end of a part of the pen-casing and adapted to be permanently secured thereto, and an imprinted disk disposed inwardly of said end piece in position to be visible therethrough.

2. In a fountain pen, a transparent end piece mounted upon the extreme end of a parent plug' having a threaded yshank-pm'-y tion adapted to substantially fill-'said recess and havingr a head-portion corresponding: in external diameter with that of. the casing; element and adapted to rest upon the same, the said head-portion constituting;r an ornamental clement for said casing-element 4. A. fountain pen casing element provided at one end with a threaded recess havingrr a bottom wall, an identification disk mounted on said bottoni wall, and a transparent plug having a threaded shank-portion adapted to substantially fill said recess and having a head-portion corresponding in diameter with that. of the casing element and adapted to rest upon the same, said head-,portion constituting an ornamental element for said casing-element, said plug having an end-surface formed to constitute the same a, lens-like member. c

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this 11th day of April, 1923.

GEORGE M. KRAKER.

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